The Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to evaluate the environmental performance
Maersk Line is the first verified shipping company in the Clean Shipping Index. The Clean Shipping Index is a tool for cargo owners to evaluate the environmental performance of shipping companies. The Clean Shipping Index has now a global reach with 30 large international cargo owners – the Clean Shipping Network – and around 45 world wide shipping companies have submitted environmental performance data regarding their vessels to the Index.
The verification of Maersk data as a shipping company has been a process with random inspections of vessels all over the world. This has been done by Lloyds Register in London which is one of so far three classification societies accredited to make verification according to the Clean Shipping Index. – It is an absolute need to have verified environmental data in a selection process of carriers for our products”, says Stefan Bodelind, Global Sourcing Manager Sea Containers at AkzoNobel, the large Dutch paint and chemical manufacturer and also a member of the Clean Shipping Network. “If we fully can trust the information it is easier to take serious environmental decisions with sometimes large economical consequences”.
Source: Clean Shipping Project
